Brian Eno: The Studio As Compositional Tool (1979) – The effect of recording is that it takes music out of the time dimension and puts it in the space dimension. As soon as you do that, you're in a position of being able to listen again and again to a performance, to become familiar with details you most certainly had missed the first time through, and to become very fond of details that weren't intended by the composer or the musicians.

Simpanssit ja ihmiset jakavat ison osan geeneistään, mutta se ei tee meistä samanlaisia – Taylor sets out to argue that it is ‘as wrong as it is misguided’ to ‘exaggerate the narrowness of the gap between chimpanzees and ourselves’: ‘It plays into the hands of our natural propensity to anthropomorphise our pets and other animals, and even our inanimate possessions, and it has allowed us to distort what the science is trying to tell us.’ His aim is ‘to set the record straight and restore chimpanzees to arm’s length’.

Errol Morris: Seven Lies About Lying – Lying is the opposite of telling the truth. Lying is telling a falsehood. Lying leads to narrative inconsistencies. Lying can never be justified. Lying will be punished. Lying is avoidable. Lying is a threat to the truth.

Felicia Day's Road To Web Stardom (Forbes) – "My work in mainstream TV and movies definitely helps me pay the bills," says Day. "But I get to do what I want creatively at the same time." She likes that her support comes from companies like Microsoft and Sprint rather than from a studio.

Tätä en tiennyt: avaruussukkula & miehistö räjäytetään, jos se eksyy reitiltä (Pop Mech) – Each time the space shuttle rises from its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., an Air Force officer waits anxiously for the first 2 minutes to pass safely. If the spaceship were to veer off course and endanger a populated area, this range safety officer would bear the terrible responsibility of flipping a pair of switches under a stenciled panel reading “Flight Termination.” The first switch arms explosives on the shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters. Flipping the second switch would detonate them, destroying the shuttle and crew.

Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure (NYT Mag) – Tarina Karadzicin myöhemmistä vaiheista. "I had the intention of developing a method in which Dabic could heal our patients, holding one hand under the testicles and one on top of the testicles," Bojovic explained. Unfortunately for infertile Serbs, Dabic’s arrest ended the testicle experiments.

What Would Fair Use Look Like in an Online Era? – 1. The presence and quality of the link.
2. Does the new format provide the opportunity for democratic engagement that is unavailable at the original provider?
3. Courts should consider this balance: between the added value of information (provided by the so-called appropriator) and amount of appropriation of the “original” work.
4. What is the overall purpose and character of the appropriating organization?

P. Diddy -henkilökuva New Yorkerista 2002 – Within moments of touching down in Paris, Combs and his crew were back on their phones. Puffy, now wide awake, seemed to be having trouble with his, so Tweedy, who was sitting one row behind him, offered some advice: "You have to dial 001 to call a New York cell phone, even if the person is in France," he explained. Combs whipped around in his seat. "Yo, Jeff, excuse me,'' he said, in a low, steady voice. "This is my fourteenth Concorde flight. I'm an international fucking player. I'll tell you how to use a phone.''